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Citation
Adrienne Porter Felt, Mtthew Finifter, Erika Chin, David Wagner. "A Survey of Mobile Malware in the Wild -". ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile Devices (SPSM), ACM, 17, October, 2011.

Abstract
Mobile malware is rapidly becoming a serious threat. In this paper, we survey the current state of mobile malware in the wild. We analyze the incentives behind 46 pieces of iOS, Android, and Symbian malware that spread in the wild from 2009 to 2011. We also use this data set to evalu- ate the eectiveness of techniques for preventing and identifying mobile malware. After observing that 4 pieces of malware use root exploits to mount sophisticated attacks on Android phones, we also examine the incentives that cause non-malicious smartphone tinkerers to publish root exploits and survey the availability of root exploits.

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  Wagner. <a
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  Survey of Mobile Malware in the Wild -</a>, ACM
  Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile Devices (SPSM),
  ACM, 17, October, 2011.

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  Adrienne Porter Felt, Mtthew Finifter, Erika Chin, David
  Wagner. "A Survey of Mobile Malware in the Wild
  -". ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile
  Devices (SPSM), ACM, 17, October, 2011.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{FeltFinifterChinWagner11_SurveyOfMobileMalwareInWild,
      author = {Adrienne Porter Felt and Mtthew Finifter and Erika
                Chin and David Wagner},
      title = {A Survey of Mobile Malware in the Wild -},
      booktitle = {ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile
                Devices (SPSM)},
      organization = {ACM},
      day = {17},
      month = {October},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Mobile malware is rapidly becoming a serious
                threat. In this paper, we survey the current state
                of mobile malware in the wild. We analyze the
                incentives behind 46 pieces of iOS, Android, and
                Symbian malware that spread in the wild from 2009
                to 2011. We also use this data set to evalu- ate
                the eectiveness of techniques for preventing and
                identifying mobile malware. After observing that 4
                pieces of malware use root exploits to mount
                sophisticated attacks on Android phones, we also
                examine the incentives that cause non-malicious
                smartphone tinkerers to publish root exploits and
                survey the availability of root exploits.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/847.html}
  }
  

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